Fake ad agency does it better
Reuters: A Dutch design student bored with conventional advertisements has set up a fake online agency offering advertising space for beer, cars and TV stations on prostitutes’ thighs and cleavage.
On his website www.instoresnow.nl, Raoul Balai also proposed painting brand names on zoo animals and floating huge billboards off popular beaches to get vacationers’ attention.
“I was getting sick and tired of advertising everywhere,” Balai told reporters. “But I don’t want to preach, and I thought satire would work better.”
Far from taking his ideas as a joke, an Amsterdam zoo had its lawyer threaten Balai with a defamation suit after his website depicted fish from the zoo bearing the brand name of a frozen fish company.
Prospective customers phoning his fake agency are kept on hold and bombarded with sales pitches until they give up.
July 6th, 2006 at 9:14pm
Some one somewhere will probably do exactly what this guy has “proposed”.
July 15th, 2006 at 7:59am
I love it!
July 18th, 2006 at 7:30am
this kid is a f^%$#@!ing genius!!!
keep sticking it in their faces maybe they’ll listen
July 18th, 2006 at 3:36pm
except that’s the idea “they” have in the first place - ad agencies think that if they continue to force you to look at ads, you’ll eventually buy the product.
and, of course, they’re right.
but does doing it back to them make it right?